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...wing of SDS is turning away from on-campus, student-oriented issues like ROTC and coming to the aid, instead, of oppressed minority groups in the surrounding community. At Michigan, Berkeley and Wisconsin, other radical students and teaching assistants are organizing rent strikes over what they consider to be substandard and overpriced off-campus housing. Efforts such as these could wash back on the universities themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prospects for Peace, Plans for Defense | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...highlight of the ensuing presentation is the "Great Ceremonial Hotdog" award to Camelot's Franco Nero "for a zoom across two miles of field, up a castle wall and into his crotch while he sang 'C'est Moi.'" It's unfortunately the only highlight of an otherwise substandard creation...

Author: By Sam Ecureil, | Title: Lampoon Movie Worsts | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...sometimes wonder what would have happened if there had been a Congressman Ugh way back then to ask of what value was fire, considering the problem of substandard caves. Thank heavens for those who asked way back why not instead of why, and for those who throughout history agreed with Norwegian Explorer Fridtjof Nansen that "it is ... of no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge-man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so he is no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become too broad; it covers Levittown as well as Greenwich, and some of the wealthiest communities have slummy enclaves next to the commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than the central city, and poor families around Los Angeles outnumbered those in the city's heart. With an astonishing 40% of the nation's poor now living in suburbs, crime and pollution problems are growing at the same rate there as in the central cities. Many suburbanites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CITIES AND SUBURBS: MORE AND MORE, THE SAME PROBLEMS | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened to a system of gears whose teeth had been filed off at random. Such a snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy, pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The Cuckoo Clock in Kurt Vonnegut's Hell | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

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